Posts by DublDipd

I glad that your Grandma decided to "hang tough"! It's just sad that her last "Christmas" probably was celebrated with a lot of inner guilt on her part. If was anything like my G'ma, even when they get close to what she percieved as "breaking the rules", you could tell she had guiltly feelings about it. Makes me so mad now!

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The Lengths JWs Go To In Order To Get Away With Things

by minimus in

jw
friends

i was just listening to the fifth dimension's 60s song "aquarius".

i remember witnesses loving that songf and actually swubstituting "aquarius" with "asparagus"!

you see, then it was ok to sing.

DublDipd

uh em....I meant that if the pub says "good luck" he will probably be destroyed forever. Got to pissed to be concerned with proper verbage!

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The Lengths JWs Go To In Order To Get Away With Things

by minimus in

jw
friends

i was just listening to the fifth dimension's 60s song "aquarius".

i remember witnesses loving that songf and actually swubstituting "aquarius" with "asparagus"!

you see, then it was ok to sing.

DublDipd

I agree 100% with you pratt...

If a person says, "good luck" they, in Jehoobers infinite love and mercy will be DESTROYED forever! If one says, "good fortune", they MAY, again in His unbounding love for us, be spared at Armageddon (or however the hell they spell it). The only sure thing is that if one does say "good fortune" with impunity will, most probably, be DESTROYED FOREVER.

Looking at it from the outside now....It is just soooooooo f'n ridiculous!!!!

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The Lengths JWs Go To In Order To Get Away With Things

by minimus in

jw
friends

i was just listening to the fifth dimension's 60s song "aquarius".

i remember witnesses loving that songf and actually swubstituting "aquarius" with "asparagus"!

you see, then it was ok to sing.

DublDipd

Seems that I always remember the "Big Turkey Dinner" (hell, just call it a Thanksgiving Dinner), was always on the preceding Tuesday or Wed. Another "fudge" with one of the more liberal congregations in my area was what they deemed "Gift Day". This was always celebrated...uhhhh I mean "observed" following the New Years festivities. I was always so jealous that the kids in that cong. always got the damned gifts...it just didn't seem right!

Since we are talking about how JW's push the dogmas, rules, laws, guidelines (?) to the edge, what about "drinking only in moderation"? I don't know about you guys, but this was one guideline around my congregation that was regularly taken out behind the woodshed and thrashed! JW's only drink in "moderation", and they have the raging alcholics to prove it!

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First time I got Dfd was hilarious

by okiesooner1966 in

i was sixteen, my dad was an eld i think po at the time.

i did'nt want to go back to the meeting right after they read my letter but because of the you live under my roof policy i had no choice.

it was the sunday meeting after they had read my letter on thursday.

DublDipd

Hey Okie!

I've believe that we have sat through many meetings on that DF/DA'd back row together! Man...the memories, gotta love it! One of the favorite activities back there was de-facing the pictures in the WT mags on Sunday during the WT study. I remember a particularly funny one... {{{{flashback}}}}

The lesson was concerning the mortal danger of how some pubs may be slowly "drifting" away (so slowly, in fact, they may not even be AWARE of it!) So the picture on one of the pages was of some dude in a rowboat, no paddles, just "drifting" along. You drew a picture of an OUTBOARD MOTOR on the back of the rowboat. When you showed it to me (during the closing prayer) I remember thinking, "OH sh#t, I can't hold this freekin' laugh in". We all busted out laughin....sounded like a pack of rabid hyenas!!

I remember getting nastier-than-usual looks from most in attendance after they had looked up from the prayer! CLASSIC!!

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I'm Starting a New Religion Too! (Help Me Choose Which Kind)

by new boy in

it's between one of the following kinds.. religion 1. we have these big churches with lots of money.

when we first start the church, we will kill people unless they join.. in later years there will be...no brith control, no eating meat on fridays, we will confess our sins to a preist.

sex before marriage is o.k.

DublDipd

They both sound pretty good to me. I would like to suggest a name for the new religion....THE CHURCH OF GODS FINAL THUNDER! (include exclamation point)

Kinda gets their attention right off the bat.

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